There is a comet down there too: animation-cometslgenow.gif I think this is: C/2006 A1 ( Pojmanski ) 2 3 Orbit Nearest to sun right now! 2006 Feb. 22.1810

I wonder if it can be seen on LASCO C3, don't know... SOHO has been squirrely lately, the Navy site in fact totally down! [Feb 21 10:16 PST]

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html

Here's the latest dif movie

http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/current_mpg/current_d3_small.gif

The German site still intact but not updating:

http://star.mpae.gwdg.de/indexe.shtml

Otherwise we have:

Mauna Loa

http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/mlso_homepage.cgi

NASA SWAN down too  [Feb 21 10:16 PST]

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/summary/swan/animation-comets.gif

I saved the SWAN backside animation prior to site-pull:

animation-cometslgenow.gif

Comet arriving from south as seen left center

[Note: SOHO and SWAN sites back up]

ONGOING SLEUTH: 2/11/2006 4:36:27 A.M. PST Kent, check out the light at the south pole! GOES 2

ORBIT ONGOING SLEUTH	GOES 10	SWAN
IMPORTANT UPDATES

The Russians : Quantum Anomaly ‘Stalls’ Above South Pole  MLSO Images  LASCO